US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Determining authentication credentials for a device-to-device service" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,393, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Determining authentication credentials for a device-to-device service" was invented by Ranganathan Mavureddi Dhanasekaran (Munich) and Jing Ping (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus for a network node comprising means for receiving an indication of a serving network name of a first user equipment, the first user equipment configured to operate as a relay between a second user equipment and a network by providing a proximity-based service between the first user equipment and the second user equipment, means for det...